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TED Radio Hour

Elise Hu: The Beauty Ideal

TED Radio Hour

NPR

Technology, Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Science

4.321.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But it's also shaped by global norms. This hour, journalist Elise Hu reflects on what's considered beautiful now, and how we'll think about beauty in the future.

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0:00.0

This is the Ted Radio Hour.

0:03.4

Each week, groundbreaking Ted Talks.

0:06.8

Our job now is to dream big.

0:08.1

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0:09.8

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0:11.9

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0:12.9

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0:14.8

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0:20.0

You just don't know what you're gonna find.

0:21.8

Challenge you.

0:22.7

We truly have to ask ourselves, like, why is it noteworthy?

0:25.1

And even change you.

0:26.2

I literally feel like I'm a different person.

0:28.4

Yes.

0:29.7

Do you feel that way?

0:31.1

Ideas worth spreading.

0:33.5

From Ted and NPR.

0:39.2

I'm Anusha Zamorodi.

0:41.0

And on the show today, ideas about beauty.

0:45.3

I have been thinking about beauty culture and appearance standards a lot, these days.

0:51.4

How much beauty means to us, not just as women or men, but as society.

0:57.6

If this voice sounds familiar, it's because you've heard her all over NPR.

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